Analysis of the influence of semiotics in the design of German cultural buildings in contemporary Iranian architecture

Abstract

Cultural and German monuments are the identity and national indicators of any country, and in the dimension of a specific place, they find meaning in the form of signs. The importance of the subject in paying attention to the layers of contemporary Iranian architecture and their reading and the revelation of the signifying and signifying attitudes within them is from the aspect of cultural proliferation. Examining the layers and reading them is because, in most cases, without theoretical knowledge and accurate knowledge of the intellectual layers of the glorious architecture of the past, Iranian architects in the past periods have turned to blind and superficial imitation. Because the semiotics of cultural buildings in the field of architecture and the context affected by it can be a guide to the sequence of the path in the right way and pay attention to the conceptual reimagining of signs in the direction of its development. Semiotics deals with two structuralist and poststructuralist perspectives. Structuralist semioticians consider the relationship between text and meaning to be direct, and in contrast to post-structuralist semioticians, they consider the relationship between text and meaning to be indirect and search for implicit meaning and intertextual relationships. The purpose of the current research is to introduce the cultural buildings of contemporary Iranian architecture in the form of examining their semiotics in terms of context and background and revealing its historical layers for the concepts of the work. The research method is qualitative and descriptive and analytical in the form of examining case examples of German cultural buildings of contemporary Iranian architecture as visible and objective examples. The main result obtained from this research shows the attention to the background factors in the works of contemporary architecture and its compliance and non-negation and having a middle approach in dealing with the background and the text.